“My New Year’s resolution is to set aside some time once a week to get informed about my local legislators’ activities and make an appointment to visit with them at least twice next year in person about our infrastructure and professional issues. I have accomplished half of that goal so far in the last few years; maybe 2017 is a breakthrough year!”

“My four focuses as president are to make sure that we have the Infrastructure Report Card finished, investigate reorganizing the Colorado Section to create a Denver Branch, continue encouraging Younger Members to get involved with the Section, and assist in the release of Dream Big.

“My individual resolutions are to perform well at my job, begin studying for the P.E. exam, learn Spanish and travel to Spain in May, and find myself on the trails at least once per week (mountain biking or skiing).”

“My New Year’s resolution is to spend more time with the future leaders of our Student Chapter to share with them what I’ve learned about the benefits of ASCE so they, too, will be driven by the knowledge of what ASCE can do for them and continue the success of the Widener University Student Chapter.”

“I want my 2017 to be a year of traveling and cooking. Let me just accept it: I am a terrible chef, especially when it comes to preparing Indian food. This year I want to learn the mysteries behind the Indian spices and be able to prepare something tolerable for my company’s next potluck.

“Apart from cooking, I also want to carry on my tradition of exploring not-so-popular towns along the East Coast. Believe me, such towns have the best food and beer. And oh yes, while I keep working toward these two major milestones, I want to make sure that I have ASCE by my side.”

“In this devastating world of ours, global warming has taken an upper hand. There is no sustaining in sustainable development. Deforestation has taken a front seat. My resolution as a civil engineer is to build with greenery. Build green buildings! I pledge to plant any kind of tree every week, which means 52 trees a year. If each one of us did this, we might rescue mankind.”

“When setting my goals for the new year, I always try to choose three resolutions, each in a slightly different area of my life. For 2017, my New Year’s resolutions are to run a second-half marathon, be able to hold a conversation in Mandarin Chinese by the end of the year (I’m pursuing a master’s degree in Beijing beginning this August), and to make a more concerted effort to make my friends’ and family’s birthdays special.”

“I hope to better serve our engineering community and the general public through effective communication, inspire younger generations, and influence those in a position of power. I also plan to encourage innovation by promoting, developing, and implementing policies, programs, and content that attract diversity.”

“My New Year’s resolution is to become more familiar and adept in using drainage design software to help in performing my job duties, and to expand my knowledge base. I have not performed drainage design yet in my job as it has always been done by someone else. This year I want to take the opportunity to learn and be able to complete drainage design for my projects.”

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Awesome, thank you for sharing! I joined a couple of days ago. It is really interesting to see the resolutions of individuals hoping to do their best in the future. I too wish to do the best in the new year 2017.

How about closing the knowledge gap between designers and builders? Every Civil Engineer should be conversant with the means and methods of construction. It’s not somebody else’s problem. We can move closer to the goal of error free drawings only when designers acquire sufficient field experience on construction projects. A good start would be my Infrastructure Projects Course now available on YouTube. I encapsulated my 50 years of experience in 80 instructional videos covering every aspect of the construction process. Start with http://youtu.be/UlypJ-RIcEY. Best of luck in your careers and Happy New Year.

Concur 100%! I tell all my younger staff that they have to know how to build what they design. Too many engineers say it’s means and methods, yet prepared plans that are either difficult and sometime impractical to construct.